[Roadsters] FS: Roadster Steel Wheels & Update on our 67

[Stan]

Auto Restorer magazine has a series they call Gearheads Under 30.  This 
sounds like a project for inclusion.  If the link goes through check it 
out.  BTW, I'm a satisfied subscriber, no other affiliation with the 
magazine.

http://www.autorestorermagazine.com/ar/pdf/AR1x2h4c0906.pdf

FrankenStan


On 6/27/2012 6:43 AM, David Bentz wrote:
>
>> Hi Linda
>> The car is not at our home. We don't have the.room and live in a community
>> with an HOA. We keep the car at the friends house. Temps in the evening and
>> nights approach 90 and our sticky monsoon season is about to.start. we are
>> content waiting for cooler weather. :-)
>> On Jun 26, 2012 9:43 PM, "Linda J"<ljordan704 at netscape.net<javascript:;>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Really great that you are working on it together.
>>> Question: What about working on it at night when it cools down?
>>>
>>> Linda
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPod
>>>
>>> On Jun 26, 2012, at 7:28 PM, Marty Escarcega<escarcega at cox.net<javascript:;>>
>> wrote:
>>>> All, I still have a set of 4 steel wheels with the hub cap tabs but no
>>> hub
>>>> caps. We had them sand blasted and then painted them with semi gloss
>>> black
>>>> paint. Would like to see them go to someone that can use them.
>>>> I was asking $100 plus shipping from Mesa, AZ 85206
>>>> Pictures here:
>>>> RoadsterWheels | marty.escarcega<https://picasaweb.google.com/marty.escarcega/RoadsterWheels>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> A brief update on the progress of our 67. As some of you know my 14
>> year
>>>> old daughter and I have been working the last couple of years on a
>>> Roadster
>>>> we found. The original engine had the head shaved too much and pistons
>>> were
>>>> slapping the head. We decided to upgrade the engine and trans to an
>>> engine
>>>> and 5speed trans out of a 1991 240SX. An S13 KA24DE. All the frame mods
>>> are
>>>> done, engine and trans bolted in place. Our goal before it got too hot
>>> was
>>>> to hear the engine fire in the chassis. Last Sunday we got to do that.
>>>> Wired up the engine, made a makeshift gas can with fuel pump, and she
>> lit
>>>> off and ran. That was a great milestone to achieve before we put the
>> car
>>>> away for summer. (We live in Mesa, just East of Phoenix. Our summers
>> are
>>>> brutal, don't want to turn Kelsey off by trying to work in this heat) a
>>> few
>>>> pictures:
>>>>
>>> 1967Datsun1600SPL311Roadster | marty.escarcega<https://picasaweb.google.com/marty.escarcega/1967Datsun1600SPL311Roadster>
>>>> Oh, and thanks to Linda we have a nice hood for our car. We hope to
>> media
>>>> blast the body, prime it and put it back on the chassis this winter and
>>>> start on some body work. Our goal is a nice dependable daily driver,
>> not
>>> a
>>>> show car.
>>>>
>>>> Marty&  Kelsey
>>>> Mesa, AZ
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